Adding Live Office content to existing dashboard

We have an existing Xcelsius 2008 dashboard that uses QaaWs connections against SAP BW queries to populate around 20 separate graphs.
We have noticed that some of these queries cannot return the desired data, so have decided to try and use Live Office to connect to Webi reports that do contain the correct data.
The problem is, despite being able to create a new dashboard using Live Office, the option to add Live Office content to the existing dashboard's spreadsheet seems to be greyed out (Live Office compatibility is enabled).
In fact the only way I can see of getting the data from a Webi report with prompts into Xcelsius is to create the spreadsheet in Excel then import it into Xcelsius. But of course if I do this then I will lose all the existing dashboard data.
Anyone have any cunning ideas?
Thanks,
A

You can export the Excel spreadsheet that is in the existing XLF (Data > Export). Add the Live Office connections in Excel and then reimport the spreadsheet. Add the Live Office connections in a new sheet so as to not impact the current cell references.
Once this is done you need to Add Existing Live Office connections from the Data Manager.

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